Artificial Kidney News

Healio has compiled a list of the most-read nephrology-related exclusive features in 2024.

In an editorial published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, nephrologists Mark E. Rosenberg, MD, and Tod Ibrahim, MD, detailed problems the specialty may face in the coming decade.

In a recent editorial, Beatrice Concepcion, MD, wrote despite some challenges, transplantation “remains the treatment of choice for most patients with advanced kidney disease,” offering a better quality of life compared with dialysis.

Early pioneers including Willem Kolff, MD, PhD, and Belding Scribner, MD, ushered in an era of hemodialysis treatment for irreversible kidney failure.

For the last 5 years, the University of Washington’s Center for Dialysis Innovation has organized Innovations in Dialysis: Expediting Advances Symposium or IDEAS.

The journey to building an artificial human kidney with stem cells may be one step shorter with recent developments.

Wearable devices may play a significant role in the future of kidney care, according to a presenter at the International Conference on Dialysis.

The HHS and the announced the six winners of the Artificial Kidney Phase 1 competition, which began accepting submissions on Oct. 30, 2020.

Developers of devices like the artificial kidney need to take advantage of technological advances, but the end users — in this case, patients with kidney disease — should be included as key advisers, a speaker said during Kidney Week.